Kroazet će ove godine imati ozbiljan takmičarski program prepun velikih rediteljskih imena. To znači da nas čeka zaista vrijedna i uzbudljiva godina filma. Nove filmove na Kan donose Noa Baumbah (Noah Baumbach), Džun-ho Bong (Bong Joon-ho), Sofija Kopola (Sofia Coppola), Mihael Haneke (Michael Haneke), Tod Hejns (Todd Haynes), Mišel Hazanavicius (Michel Hazanavicius), Nong Sangsu (Hong Sangsoo), Naomi Kavase (Naomi Kawase), Jorgos Lantimos (Yorgos Lanthimos), Sergej Loznica (Sergei Loznitsa), Fransoa Ozon (Francois Ozon), Lin Ramzi (Lynne Ramsay) i Andrej Zvaginjcev (Andrey Zvyagintsev).
Evo zvaničnog spiska takmičarskog programa:
Fatih Akin “Aus Dem Nicht”s “(In The Fade”)
Noah Baumbach “The Meyerowitz Stories
Bong Joon-ho “Okja
Robin Campillo “120 Battements Par Minute”
Sofia Coppola “The Beguiled”
Jacques Doillon “Rodin”
Michael Haneke “Happy End”
Todd Haynes “Wonderstruck”
Michel Hazanavicius “Le Roundtable”
Hong Sangsoo “Geu-Hu” (“The Day After”)
Naomi Kawase “Hikari” (“Radiance”)
Yorgos Lanthimos “The Killing Of A Sacred Deer”
Sergei Loznitsa “A Gentle Creature”
Kornel Mandruczo “Jupiter's Moon”
Francois Ozon “L'amant Double”
Lynne Ramsay “You Were Never Really Here”
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie “Good Time”
Andrey Zvyagintsev “Nelyubov” (“Loveless”)
Festival, van konkurencije, otvara novi film Arnoa Deplešana (Arnaoud Desplechin) “Les Fantomes D'Ismael”.